Energy bosses have warned that as many as four in 10 people across the UK could fall into fuel poverty in October, as they called for more support from the Treasury for vulnerable households.
Scottish Power chief executive Keith Anderson said the UK Government should take £1,000 off the energy bills of the poorest people in the country in October, suggesting that either the government or billpayers would then pay this back over 10 years.
He told MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Tuesday: "I think the problem's got to the size and scale that it requires something significant of that nature where those people who are deemed to be in fuel poverty or vulnerable need something of the size and scale that puts their bills back to where it used to be before the gas crisis.”
